Re: Rust: kernel vs user-space

Yeah… I second that question…

(Not asking for a friend… :-) )



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Jan Knepper

> On Sep 4, 2024, at 11:22, Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>> On 4 Sep 2024, at 15:37, Stefan Esser <se@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Am 04.09.24 um 11:52 schrieb Mark Delany:
>>> On 04Sep24, David Chisnall apparently wrote:
>>>> There are lots of control-plane things that I'd love to see
>>>> written mostly in Lua,
>>> It was remiss of me to not mention Lua given that it's already in the project.
>>> Yet another language which could make life easier, more productive and more accessible in
>>> user-land.
>>> I'm not suggesting for an instant that any of these programs need rewriting, but one could
>>> imagine that if commands like ifconfig, route, arp, ndp, ipfw (that is, programs which
>>> take a lot of user input and do a lot of data manipulation but aren't super-critical on
>>> the performance front) were written in a more accessible language, then it might attract
>>> new developers without disenfranchising the core C developers.
>> 
>> Here is ldconfig in LUA, written more than 2 years ago, for example:
>> 
>> https://github.com/stesser/ldconfig/blob/main/ldconfig.lua
> 
> And this is better than C because ...?
> 
> (Asking for a friend :-)
> 
> --
> Bob Bishop
> rb@gid.co.uk
> 
>